#confederation

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#confederation #constitution #failure #independence

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction. ↗

— William Whipple

#confederation #fear #give #got #great

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#because #canada #confederation #culture #decades

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#altered #best #compact #confederation #consideration

Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#another #between #competing #confederation #countries

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#avoid #becoming #community #confederation #dreadful

Smartass Disciple: Why men don't ready yet to join the intergalactic confederation? Master of Stupidity: Men could make them laugh to death. It'd be too risky for them. ↗

— Toba Beta

#funny #intergalactic #join #life #risk

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. ↗

— John Adams

#arise #circulation #coin #confederation #confusion

To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#betray #chance #confederation #exercise #federal

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#confederation #exist #independent #only #states